Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.''You'd need two hands for that, ' said

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered

I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you, ' was all I could say in return.

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul

That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.